"Spain. The fifties. Franco’s iron fist on the population has settled, and every resistance group has been eliminated. The dictator with the high-pitched voice concocts a plan to reactivate the country’s economy by creating a series of rural settlements in which to favor the birth of “the new fascist man (…), the anti-urban, anti-labor man, bonded to the land, fearful of God, and devoted to the regime”. Llanos del Caudillo is one of those towns where, even today, the presence of the coup-leading general is still strong in its streets and in the memory of its inhabitants, whom, in many cases, refer to the Francoist legacy with reverence and gratitude. In some way, portraying Llanos del Caudillo means to make a scale drawing of the traumatized, contradictory Spain that, well into the 21st Century, is incapable of facing its history. Franco’s Settlers is the uncomfortable, forceful study of both things: the locale in La Mancha and the country that lived the European dream as an improbable solution in order to avoid relapsing into barbarity." (Fran Gayo)Franco's Settlers at the BAFICI film festival in Buenos Aires (English)

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